Hi Jack Thanks; worked nicely. Shouldn't this package be included with 'apt-get build-dep kmymoney'; for the benefit of other newcomers?
Best Al_ PS: I was out of town for the week, thus my late thank. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:38:58 -0700 (PDT) > Von: Jack <ostrof...@sbcglobal.net> > An: softw...@quantentunnel.de, kmymoney-devel@kde.org > Betreff: Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Feature request: improved / additional currency > conversion > Hello Al, > > GMP is a library for arbitrary precision math, from http://gmplib.org/. > Depending on your distro, you should find a gmp-dev package, or something > like > it. (By the way, subversion uses checkout, git uses clone.) > > > Jack > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "softw...@quantentunnel.de" <softw...@quantentunnel.de> > To: kmymoney-devel@kde.org > Sent: Sat, October 22, 2011 12:14:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Feature request: improved / additional > currency > conversion > > Thanks, Thomas. After thinking a bit more and reading > kmymoneycalculator.cpp I > agree that the calculator widget is more appropriate than a plugin. So, I > will > give it a try; but need your help already to compile kmymoney. > > I cloned the subversion repo of kmymoney. As this is the first KDE app > that I > try to compile, I needed to download a bunch of libs > (desktop:~/Temp/kmymoney/build$ sudo apt-get build-dep kmymoney). > Unluckily, > cmake (desktop:~/Temp/kmymoney/build$ cmake .. > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/) > still reports errors: "Could NOT find GMP (missing: GMP_INCLUDE_DIR > GMP_LIBRARIES)" > > > Any idea how to resolve? > > Best > > Al_ > > > Hi, > > on Tuesday 18 October 2011 19:59:28 softw...@quantentunnel.de wrote: > > > ... > > One feature in MS Money was handy that I miss in KMyMoney: entering > amounts > > in a foreign currency. Typical example are credit card purchases during > > vacation: the customer copy lists, e.g., USD but the credit card company > > will be me in Euro. In MS Money I could enter the amount in USD, then > > press F8 which pops up a dialog where I can choose the destination > > currency (Euro). This dialog looks otherwise similar to the currency > > conversion dialog that KMyMoney presents when transferring money between > > accounts with different currencies. And yes, I realize that this will > only > > give approximate amounts as the credit card company most often applies a > > slightly different exchange rate. Nevertheless, it becomes obvious > during > > reconciliation whether the amount can be correct or is fraudulent. > > > > Instead of F8, I suggest to include a button "Convert to ..." in the > pop-up > > calculator, in addition to basic math (+ - / * %). > > ... > > PS: I am an amateur C++ / Qt4 programmer. Do you believe I could > contribute > > to a "Convert to ..." plugin? > > Certainly, you can give it a try. We can direct you to the right spot. I > am > not sure, if a plugin would be the right solution, but I haven't thought > about > it either. > > The calculator is organized as an object and can easily be modified. It is > automatically available for all amount widgets throughout the application. > > p.s. Please send furhter mails to kmymoney-devel@kde.org as this is the > new > developer list. > > -- > > Regards > > Thomas Baumgart > -- > NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurück-Garantie! > Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone > _______________________________________________ > KMyMoney-devel mailing list > KMyMoney-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurück-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone _______________________________________________ KMyMoney-devel mailing list KMyMoney-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel
